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Title: The Sound of Things FallingAuthor: Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Anne McLean (translator)
Published: 2011
Language: English (translated from Spanish)
Pages: 320
Rating: 3/5
Summary:
Set in Bogota, a man reads an article in a newspaper and recalls his friendship to a mysterious man who was killed years before at the height of Colombia's drug trade.
Review:
I quite liked this book and there are some amazing things about it, and some not so much.
My favorite thing about this is the writing; it's poetic, beautiful and conjures up places and people in just a few sentences. This is a book filled with emotion and it's captured incredibly well. It's a profound and important story in and of itself, but the writing makes it more so. I especially enjoyed the setting of this book and how we get to see this country through this very tumultuous time, and how the book shows us how that affected the people who are stuck in the middle of all of it.
When I started reading this, I was initially very intrigued by the characters, but I sadly found my interest waning the further into the book I got, so I found that about halfway through the book, I was getting a little bored. It's a quiet book in a lot of ways and kind of melancholy and I usually don't mind that, but I felt towards the end that it was just too much.
I think this is worth the read though, and I'm glad I read it. I would love to read more of this authors work because the writing really is fantastic.
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